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Market Wrap: Bitcoin Options Lean Bearish as Some Altcoins Outperform

BTC is slightly lower over the past week compared with a 5% rise in Solana’s SOL token and a 38% rise in Avalanche’s AVAX.

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Is Congressman Brad Sherman Embracing Memecoins?

Barely a day after anti-crypto Congressman Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) made ironic remarks about Mongoose Coin, a cryptocurrency that did not exist. It became a reality with a market cap of $25 million. Now, Sherman has thanked the Mongoose Community for donating to the Western Kentucky Relief Fund.

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Market Wrap: Altcoins Outperform as Ether Rises Toward $4K

Bitcoin was down about 2%, while ether was roughly flat over the past 24 hours compared with a 4% rise in SOL and a 7% rise in LUNA.

Bitcoin dominance rate declined as altcoins outperformed (Damanick Dantes/CoinDesk, TradingView)

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Could India Ban Private Cryptocurrencies?

India’s biggest crypto exchange WazirX registered an annual trading volume of over $43 billion, marking a 1,735% growth over 2020, despite lingering regulatory uncertainty and market volatility in the country.

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Solana Leads Gains as Cryptos Recover on Fed Decision

Measures to curb financial stimulus buoyed traditional and crypto markets after days of volatility and stagnation.

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Market Wrap: Bitcoin Bounces After Fed Decision; Analysts Expect Sideways Trading

Bitcoin is up about 3% over the past 24 hours, compared to a 4% rise in ether and a 14% rise in Solana’s SOL token.

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Market Wrap: Cryptocurrencies Stabilize as Traders Await the Fed

Analysts are cautious about crypto prices as risk appetite wanes.

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Avalanche, Cosmos Lead Crypto Losses Amid Altcoin Purge

Crypto markets were bathed in red on Tuesday as weakening technical signals and macroeconomic factors came into play.

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Market Wrap: Altcoins Underperform as Bitcoin Dips Below $48K

Bullish sentiment continues to fade ahead of tomorrow’s U.S. Federal Reserve meeting.

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Market Wrap: US Inflation at 39-Year High Fails to Buoy Bitcoin

The consumer price index surged to 6.8% in November, but traders may hold off on investing in risky assets the rest of the year.

Bitcoin dominance ratio (Damanick Dantes/CoinDesk, TradingView)